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Since 2017: Career film critics continuing the conversation

Original-Cin Q&A: Trailer Park Boys actor talks about his powerful reverse-racial-profile drama Black Cop

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekMay 29, 2018Racial profiling, Police shootings of blacks, Halifax, PTSD, Cory Bowles, Trailer Park Boys, Toronto International Film Festival

The Gospel According To Andre: Just an ordinary flamboyant man in a caftan

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekMay 25, 2018Fashion, Vogue, Andre Leon Talley, Women's Wear Daily, Anna Wintour, Diana Vreeland, Documentaries

Kayak To Klemtu: Clunky Dramedy Scores Strong Green Message Despite Itself

By Liam Lacey

ReviewMay 24, 2018Zoe Leigh Hopkins, Ta’Kaiya Blaney, Lorne Cardinal, Canadian film

Solo: Star Wars' young rogue manages some swagger in an edgeless adventure

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekMay 24, 2018Star Wars, Prequels, Alden Ehrenreich, Emilia Clarke, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Lando Calrissian, Millennium Falcon

Birthmarked: Scientific child abuse 'comedy' is a hypothesis dead on arrival

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekMay 23, 2018Comedy, Behaviorism, Nature versus nurture, Toni Collette, Scientific ethics, Children raised in isolation, B.F. Skinner

Original-Cin Q&A: Solo/Avengers' Paul Bettany was told a decade ago he'd never work again

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekMay 21, 2018Star Wars, Han solo prequel, Dryden Vos, Paul Bettany, Ron Howard, Joss Whedon, Avengers, Vision, JARVIS

Another Kind of Wedding: Fraught Family Relations Power Likable Comedy

By Kim Hughes

ReviewMay 18, 2018Comedy, Canadian movies, Kathleen Turner, Wallace Shawn, Jessica Pare, Frances Farmer

Venus: Transgender Woman Confronts Tradition (and Parenthood) in Gentle New Comedy

By Liam Lacey

ReviewMay 17, 2018Canadian, comedy, Debargo Sanyal, Eisha Marjara, transgender issues

New Jean-Michel Basquiat Doc Precisely Locates 70s NYC but Blurry on Its Subject

By Liam Lacey

ReviewMay 17, 2018Sara Driver, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Documentary

Show Dogs: Crappy Comedy is a Dog Alright, Void of Bark or Bite

By Liam Lacey

ReviewMay 17, 2018Ludacris, Will Arnett, comedy, animals

RBG: Doc Captures Brilliant Ruth Bader Ginsburg in All Her Feminist Glory

By Liam Lacey

ReviewMay 17, 2018Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Documentary, Toronto Jewish film festival

Pope Francis: A Man Of His Word asks ‘Where in the world is il Papa?’

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekMay 17, 2018Catholicism, Pope Francis, Wim Wenders, Documentaries, Refugees, Religion, Religious political activism

Disobedience: Rachels Weisz and McAdams are forbidden lovers in thoughtful film about religion and freedom

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekMay 16, 2018Orthodox Jews, Sebastian Lelio, Same sex romance, religion, A Fantastic Woman, Toronto International Film Festival

Deadpool 2: Super self-aware gag-fest is the Marvel movie we need right now

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekMay 16, 2018Superheroes, Marvel, Deadpool, James Brolin, Thanos, X-Men, David Leitch, Meta movies

Original-Cin Q&A: Mary Steenburgen talks Book Club, accordion and 'magical unicorn' Diane Keaton

By Bonnie Läufer

InterviewJim SlotekMay 14, 2018Comedies, Veteran actresses, Jane Fonda, Mary Steenburgen, Candice Bergen, Diane Keaton, E.L. James, Fifty Shades Of Grey, The Last Man On Earth

You've seen the AGO show, now see the tragic doc Kusama-Infinity

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekMay 14, 2018Documentary, Modern art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Sexism, Racism, Andy Warhol, Yoyoi Kusama

Breaking In: No Mother’s Day Flowers for Lame Home Invasion Thriller

By Liam Lacey

ReviewMay 10, 2018home invasion, thriller, Gabrielle Union

Life of the Party: Dead on Arrival, And Scant Fun To Boot

By Kim Hughes

ReviewMay 10, 2018Melissa McCarthy, Ben Falcone, comedy, coming of age, midlife crisis

The Seagull: Chekhov in a context-free vacuum suffocates its fine actors

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekMay 10, 2018Plays adapted as films, Anton Chekhov, Saoirse Ronan, Annette Bening, Brian Dennehy, Stephen Karam

Revenge: A feminist French grindhouse movie, fuelled by peyote

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekMay 9, 2018Midnight movies, Rape, Revenge, Vigilante violence, French films, feminism